More quotes by Thomas Babington Macaulay
Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.
The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.
I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books than a king who did not love reading.
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
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To sin by silence, when we should protest,
Makes cowards out of men.
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
There are times when good words are to be left unsaid out of esteem for silence.
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